North Huish
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B01: inscription
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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several around the upper basin side
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10503HUI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A38, 4 km S of Brent Mill, 8 km E of Ivybridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662?
Century and Period: 14th century [re-tooled?] / 17th century, late Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Diptford?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908).
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font dated 1662 by an inscription on the side on the side of the basin, a date that may have been part of the re-tooling of the original (?) font of the Decorated period. Stabb (1908) writes: "The granite font [...] is dated 1662, but this is not necessarily the date of making the font, as during the Commonwealth [1649-1659] the fonts were often removed from the church, and when they were replaced at the Restoration [1660] the date of such replacing was often carved upon the font. This is the only dated font I have seen in Devonshire, with the exception of that at St. John's-in-the-Wilderness, [cf. Index entry] and that I do not think is a genuine date." In Hoskins (1954): "The granite font is dated 1662".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers and letters
Inscription Notes: Stabb (1908) argues that the inscription dates to the Restoration period, but the font is earlier
Inscription Location: on one of the panels of the basin
Inscription Text: "1662 / RO"
Inscription Source: Stab (1908: 128)
REFERENCES
Hoskins, William George, Devon, London: Collins, 1954
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916